In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative…A lot of habitually creative people have preparation… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative…the real secret of… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“When I walk into [the studio] I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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